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= Introduction: Lesson 7 = Prior to the lesson, have a discussion about text and graphic features. Have all the features of a nonfiction text on chart paper with an example and the definition. Explain the features as tools that help you understand the text. A title, picture, caption, photograph, or diagram is a tool in a nonfiction text that will help you complete the work of analyzing the meaning or understanding of the text. In order to understand the text, you first must understand how to use the tools. This is why the chart of “//Nonfiction Text and Graphic Features//” should be displayed and heavily focused on. You might want to start the unit using an article from //Scholastic News// or //Time for Kids//. First, name and point to all the main types of text and graphic features used in the text. Explain the features as tools that help you understand the text. When reading the example of a nonfiction text in the beginning of the lesson, the same anchor chart should be focused on throughout the lesson. The anchor chart could have three columns- //Text or Graphic Feature/ The Purpose of the Feature/ How it Helped Me Understand the Topic/Title Better.// After students can recognize and understand the use the feature, the focus of this lesson is the last column: **//How this Feature helped me understand the text better.//** Before reading //Jack Draws a Beanstalk//, review that a traditional tale is a story that people have told for many years and a fairy tale is a story with magical characters and events. Students could then use their knowledge about illustrations from //What Do Illustrators Do//? to help predict the story plot in //Jack Draws a Beanstalk//. Again, focus on the **__role of illustrations in all genres__**.
 * //Do close reading with//** pages 223,228,238,242-243.

= Student Outcomes: = SWBAT identify and understand the purpose of text and graphic features in nonfiction to help them identify the main idea/s.

Using pictures and illustrations in both fiction and nonfiction stories, SWBAT create predictions and then check them to better understand the main idea/s of the text.

1. On page 228, why does the author choose to use cartoons and speech bubbles? 2. On page 228, which word stands out? Why does the author choose this word to stand out? 3. On page 231, the author chooses to use specific graphic features. What graphic features are used? How do these features help the reader understand the main idea? 4. On page 223, there is a word in italics. Why does the author choose to put this work in italics? Why are words written in italics? 5. Explain how the speech balloons set a different tone compared to the text itself. 6. On page 238 the author compares different tools that can be used. What graphic features are used to help compare and contrast these tools? 7. On pages 242 and 243 there are two different covers. What do the pictures on the cover of //Jacqueline and the Magic Beanstalk// tell you about the setting of the story? What do the pictures on //Jack and the Beanstalk// tell you about the setting in the story? 8. What attitude do the editor and illustrator have about working together? How do you know? || =Questions:= 1. Based on the story, which two words best describe Jack? Use two details from the story to support your answer. 2.) How do Jack’s actions affect the outcome of the story? Use two details from the story to support your answer. 3.) What lesson does Jack learn at the end of the story? 4.) Which piece of dialogue support’s the story’s main theme? ||
 * =Title 1: //What Do illustrators Do//?= || =Title 2: Jack Draws a Beanstalk= ||
 * =Questions:=

= Summative Questions: = 1. After reading //What Do Illustrators Do?,// how did the cartoons and bubbles help you understand the role of an illustrator? What was the purpose of adding cartoons and bubbles in this story? 2. There are many steps in becoming an illustrator. List the steps to becoming an illustrator in sequential order. 3. What attitude do the editor and illustartor have about working together? How do you 3. Both illustrators in the story decide to retell //Jack and the Beanstalk//. How are the illustrators similar? How are the illustrators different? 4. Describe the way Jack escapes from the giant's wife's apron pocket. Explain how he becomes trapped in her pocket and how Jack's actions lead to the conclusion of the story. Use details from the story to support your answer. In your response, be sure to include the following
 * how Jack ends up in the Giant's wife's pocket
 * the events that made the incident happen
 * the reason Jack is able to escape
 * details from the story to support your answer,

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